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LEED-ND and Livability Revisited [PDF]

, 2017
This study examines LEED-ND’s criteria for Neighborhood Pattern and Design (NPD). LEED-ND was developed as a system for rating new neighborhoods on the sustainability of their planning.
Geoff Boeing
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Livability-oriented urban built environment: What kind of built environment can increase the housing prices?

Journal of Urban Management
The creation of a dense, convenient, and diverse built environment is a strategic approach for fostering urban development. However, few studies have considered the relationship between a compact built environment and livability.
Jinyu Huang, Yang Wang, Kangmin Wu, Xiaoli Yue, Hong'ou Zhang   +4 more
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Communicating Livability: Changing Public Behavior [PDF]

, 2018
Livability of place is a central theme in developing concepts about transit ridership. In order to develop strategy for a compelling public communication campaign to increase transit ridership, this project frames the connections between livability and ...
Lewis, Rebecca, Shaffer, Autumn, Lewman, Hannah, Morrison, Deboarh   +3 more
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Urban Livability Toward Sustainable Development: A Case Study of Saravan City [PDF]

مطالعات مدیریت توسعه سبز
IntroductionCities are typically defined as densely populated, developed settlements characterized by extensive built environments and active commercial and industrial functions.
Abdolsalam Sepahian, Hossein Mollashahi, Maryam Karimian Bostani   +2 more
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“Why can't they put us to sleep if we are suffering?”: La Nada and the desire for euthanasia among institutionalized older adults in Peru

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I examine how institutionalized older adults in Peru articulate suffering through the idiom of la nada—“nothingness”—and how this shapes desires for euthanasia. Moving from close ethnography of bodies in space and time to structural and ethical discourses on euthanasia, I argue that calls for euthanasia arise not only from ...
Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori
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Navigating troubled waters: Posthumanist vulnerability and entanglement in Richard Powers's Playground (2024)

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Richard Powers's most recent novels to date—The Overstory (2018), Bewilderment (2021), and Playground (2024)—engage with some of the environmental and technological threats that loom over our planet, such as deforestation, species loss, the degradation of the ocean bottom, and the risks associated with the development of generative AI ...
Carmen Laguarta‐Bueno
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Mapping Nationwide Subfield Division Dynamics in Saudi Arabia Using Temporal Patterns of Sentinel-2 NDVI and Machine Learning

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
Object-based analysis is widely used for extracting information from satellite data using machine learning, offering reduced sensitivity to fine-scale variability, noise, and computational cost compared to pixel-based methods.
Ting Li, Oliver Miguel Lopez Valencia, Matthew F. McCabe   +2 more
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“Strange can be quite normal”: How the environmental crisis becomes present in Han Kang's and Samanta Schweblin's “constructively alienating” environmental fiction

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract This article presents the concept “constructive alienation” as a response to the oversaturation of apocalyptic environmental fiction that has contributed to deep‐seated desensitization toward the climate crisis, resulting in crisis of imagination (Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate change and the unthinkable, 2016; Solnit, If you win the ...
Agnethe Brounbjerg Bennedsgaard
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Livability in State Departments of Transportation [PDF]

016797132017PDFTech ReportSURLC 17-002AccessibilityCommunitiesMobilityPolicyState departments of transportationEconomicsPolicySocietyTransportation (General)MontanaUnited StatesWestern Transportation InstituteAllen, Tiffany D.H.David KackWestern ...

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The Paradox of Black Life: Discourses of Urban (Un)livability [PDF]

, 2020
The question of livability in the city has inspired plenty of debate amongst urban planning practitioners and scholars who have tried to define what constitutes a livable city and question, for whom is the livable city planned? (Okulics-Kozaryn, 2013, p.
Mohamud, Jamilla
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